Rolling deck and form for solid-end boxes.



H. B. WALTER..

ROLLING DECK AND FORM FOR SOLID END BOXES.

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ROLLING DECK AND FORM FOR SOLID END BOXES. APPLICATION FILED MAR. so. 1916.

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HARRISON B. WALTER, 0F DANVILLE, ILLINOIS.

ROLLING DECK AND FORM FOR SOLID-END BOXES.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Application filed March 30, 1916. Serial No. 87,833.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRISON B. WALTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danville, in the count of Vermilion and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rolling Decks and Forms for Solid-End Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in skeleton forms for solid end boxes, the object being to provide means to facilitate the handling and stapling in of the heads of packing boxes whether empty or filled.

This invention comprises a rolling deck with a stand attached thereto, which stand is a form over which the empty body of a box is placed when the first head is to be sta led therein.

number of boxes are prepared in this manner after which the form is unscrewed from the deck and the box is set over the deck whereon it is held in a position to be loaded and to have the second head stapled therein, the same resting on top of the goods therein.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing enough of the machine to clearly illustrate the invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the form wlth the box tube in place;

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section;

Fig. 4 is a transverse section on line M of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the clamping means.

A, represents the stapling machine, provided with the usual stapling head B.

G, represents the operating table upon which the form is mounted. Two of the legs 1 of the table are so spaced as to be received in notches or slots 2 in the base of the machine, thus locking the parts together for operation. A gage 3 in the form of an angle iron is adjustably mounted on the ma chine frame by means of the bolts 4 extending through. the slots 5, this gage being provided for guiding the rolling deck D.

Numeral 6 is the base of the rolling deck D, it being mounted on ball bearing rollers or casters 7. Cleats 8 are arranged across the base upon which a cylinder or form E is adapted to rest. This form E may be con- SiZIlIC'lSEd in any convenient manner, but preferably consists of substantially rectangular heads or disks 9 and 10 d wall portion 11,

which latter, in this case is made up of a continuous piece of fiber securely fastened together and to the disks 9 and 10. These disks or heads are each provided with an elongated slot 12 which are adapted to register with a like slot 13 in the base portion of the rolling deck D.

A T bolt 14: the head of which is of such a shape as to be passed through the slots in the heads or ends of the form, and be turned at right angles thereto, is adaptedto securely fasten the form and the rolling deck I) together by means of the clamping nut 15.

The gage 3 is placed on the machine frame in accordance with the position of the swinging stapling head as shown in Fig. 1, the stapling taking place at the upper edges 16 of the box. The box is placed over the form as shown in Fig. 1.

The present invention is devised more particularly for handling large size and heavy boxes, which can not be easily slid over the surface of thetable, they being placed upon the rolling deck D and moved over the table in that way instead.

A tube of the solid end box is dropped over the form and a head is inserted therein, which rests on the top of the form as disclosed in Fig. 3, the form being made of the proper height to exactly register the flanges of the head .and the edges of the tube. The deck is then passed through the machine thgreby attaching one head to an empty tu e.

A number of these boxes are prepared in this way. the form is unscrewed from the rolling deck and the box is set over the deck with its flanges surrounding the cleats 8 on the decks. The box is then loaded, rolled to the stapling machine. whereupon the other head is placed in position, and supported by the goods packed in the box, is stapled to the edges of the tube after which the finished package is completed and the deck is rolled away and the loaded box is removed therefrom, and is ready for shipment.

Notches 17 in either end of the base of the deck permit of the easy removal of the loaded box from the deck. The number of decks used are according to the speed desired.

I claim 1. A work support comprising a rolling deck having an elongated slot arranged centrally thereof, cleats on said deck, a \tllli Patented Alan. i5, 191%..

arranged upon said cleats, and a clamping means received in the elongated slot for removably attaching the form to said deck.

2. A work support comprising a rolling deck having a slot arranged centrally thereof, cleats on said deck, a hollow form having heads, each provided with a slot, either of which slots may be arranged to register with the slot in the rolling deck, and clamping means received within the slot in the rolling deck and the slot in one of the heads for securing the form and deck together.

3. A work support comprising a rolling deck having a slot arranged centrally thereof, a hollow form having heads each provided with a slot, said form so arranged that the slot in either head will register with the slot in the rolling deck, and clamping means for removably securing the rolling deck and form together.

4. The combination with a stapling-machine and a table, of a deck mounted for universal horizontal movement on the table and having removable means thereon to receive and fit a box to support the head of the box while it is being stapled into the box 5. The combination with a stapling-machine, of a deck mounted for universal horizontal movement with respect to the machine, and having removable means thereon to receive and fit a box, and to support the head of the box while it is-being stapled into the box.

6. The combination with a stapling-ma chine, and a table removably connected therewith, of a deck movable on the table, and a form removably secured on the deck, said form being shaped to conform to the shape of a box to be headed, the arrangement being such that the said form is surrounded by the box body and supports the head during the stapling operation.

7. The combination with a stapling-machine, of a deck movable with respect to the machine, and a form removably secured on the deck, said form being adapted to conform to the shape of a box to be headed, the arrangement being such that the said form is surrounded by the box bodyand supports the head during the stapling operation.

8. A combined deck and. form mounted for universal horizontal movement, and Wheels supporting said deck, the form being removably secured on the deck and adapted to receive the body of a box, the arrangement being such that the said form is sur- 7. rounded by the box body and supports a head during the stapling operation.

In testimony whereof I aifix m signature.

HARRISON B. ALTER. 

